CIAO DATE: 06/05

Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Spring 2004 (Vol. 77 No. 1)

 

Articles

• Helping to Keep the Peace (Albeit Reluctantly): China's Recent Stance on Sovereignty and Multilateral Intervention
  Allen Carlson

• Environmental NGOs in China: Roles and Limits
  Jonathan Schwartz

• Sustainable Development and the Social and Cultural Impact of a Dam-Induced Development Strategy—the Bakun Experience
  Yee Keong Choy

• The New Community Movement: Park Chung Hee and the Making of State Populism in Korea
  Seung-Mi Han

Books Reviewed in this Issue

Asia General

• The United States, China and Southeast Asian Security: A Changing of the Guard? By Wayne Bert.
  Reviewed by Andrew Scobell

• International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific. Edited by G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno.
  Reviewed by Yasuhiro Izumikawa

• Women in Developing Countries: Assessing Strategies for Empowerment. Edited by Rekha Datta and Judith Kornberg.
  Reviewed by Heather Gibb

• Beyond the Beach: An Ethnography of Modern Travellers in Asia. By Klaus Westerhausen.
  Reviewed by Victor Alneng

China and Inner Asia

• China Cross Talk: The American Debate over China Policy since Normalization, A Reader. Edited by Scott Kennedy.
  Reviewed by Shunyo Liao

• Local Government and Politics in China: Challenges from Below. By Yang Zhong.
  Reviewed by Joseph Tse-hei Lee

• A County of Culture: Twentieth-Century China Seen from the Village Schools of Zouping, Shandong. By Stig Thøgersen.
  Reviewed by Xin Liu

• Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China. By Adam Segal.
  Reviewed by Eric Thun

• China's Techno Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear Age to the Information age. By Evan A. Feigenbaum.
  Reviewed by Wendy Frieman

• Back Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China. By Kellee S. Tsai.
  Reviewed by Eddy U

• Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937. By Linsun Cheng.
  Reviewed by Karl Gerth

• Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination. By Wanning Sun.
  Reviewed by Yuezhi Zhao

• The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility and Identity. Edited by Laurence J.C. Ma and Carolyn Cartier.
  Reviewed by Diana Lary

• The Nature of Chinese Politics: From Mao to Jiang. Edited by Jonathan Unger.
  Reviewed by Scott Wilson

• Professionalizing Research in Post-Mao China: The System Reform Institute and Policy Making. By Catherine Keyser, with a foreword by Andrew J. Nathan.
  Reviewed by Stanley Rosen

• The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China. By Tze-lan D. Sang.
  Reviewed by Fran Martin

• From Leninist Discipline to Socialist Legalism: Peng Zhen on Law and Political Authority in the PRC. By Pitman B. Potter.
  Reviewed by Frederick C. Teiwes

• Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches. Edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom.
  Reviewed by Charles W. Hayford

• The Mongols at China's Edge: History and the Politics of National Unity. By Uradyn E. Bulag.
  Reviewed by Susan D. Blum

• Taiwan: A Political History. By Denny Roy.
  Reviewed by Murray A. Rubinstein

Northeast Asia

• Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan, Second Edition. By Mikiso Hane.
  Reviewed by Jeffrey W. Alexander

• Japan's Managed Globalization: Adapting to the Twenty-first Century. Edited by Ulrike Schaede and William Grimes.
  Reviewed by Patricia L. Maclachlan

• The Rise of Modern Japan. By Linda K. Menton, Noren W. Lush, Eileen H. Tamura, and Chance I. Gusukuma.
  Reviewed by Mark L. Wisniewski

• The State and Politics in Japan. By Ian Neary.
  Reviewed by Richard Katz

• Feminisms in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality. By Vera Mackie.
  Reviewed by Andrea Germer

• Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches. Edited by Roger Goodman.
  Reviewed by Scott Clark

• Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan. By Joshua Hotaka Roth.
  Reviewed by David L. Howell

• Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective. By Takeyuki Tsuda.
  Reviewed by Tsuneharu Gonnami

• Japan and Britain in the Contemporary World: Responses to Common Issues. Edited by Hugo Dobson and Glenn D. Hook.
  Reviewed by David W. Edgington

• Kabuki: Baroque Fusion of the Arts. By Kawatake Toshio, translated by Frank and Jean Connell Hoff.
  Reviewed by Timothy Iles

• A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance. Edited by Samuel L. Leiter.
  Reviewed by Monika Dix

• Economic Crisis and Corporate Restructuring in Korea: Reforming the Chaebol. Edited by Stephan Haggard, Wonhyuk Lim and Euysung Kim.
  Reviewed by Dennis L. McNamara

• Min Yong-Hwan: A Political Biography. By Michael Finch.
  Reviewed by Vipan Chandra

South Asia

• Building a Global Partnership: Fifty Years of Indo-Japanese Relations. Edited by K.V. Kesavan, with a foreword by Dr. Karan Singh.
  Reviewed by Purnendra Jain

• Searching for Peace in Central and South Asia: An Overview of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities. Edited by Monique Mekenkamp, Paul van Tongeren and Hans van de Veen.
  Reviewed by Mohammed Badrul Alam

Southeast Asia

• Transcending Borders: Arabs, Politics, Trade and Islam in Southeast Asia. Edited by Huub de Jonge and Nico Kaptein.
  Reviewed by Thomas Gibson

• Democracy, Human Rights, and Civil Society in South East Asia. Edited by Amitav Acharya, B. Michael Frolic and Richard Stubbs.
  Reviewed by William Case

• The Changing Face of Multinationals in Southeast Asia. By Tim G. Andrews, Nartnalin Chompusri and Brian J. Baldwin.
  Reviewed by Henry Wai-chung Yeung

• Environmental Protection and Rural Development in Thailand: Challenges and Opportunities. Edited by Philip Dearden.
  Reviewed by Philip Hirsch

• Malayasia: The Making of a Nation. By Cheah Boon Kheng.
  Reviewed by Andrew Willford

• Abdurrahman Wahid: Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President. By Greg Barton.
  Reviewed by Steven Drakeley

• The Collapse of a Colonial Society: The Dutch in Indonesia during the Second World War. By Louis de Jong.
  Reviewed by Theodore Friend

• Golddiggers, Farmers, and Traders in the 'Chinese Districts' of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. By Mary Somers Heidhues.
  Reviewed by Charles A. Coppel

• East Timor: Development Challenges for the World's Newest Nation. Edited by Hal Hill and Joao M. Saldanha.
  Reviewed by Donald E. Weatherbee

• Land Claims in East Timor. By Daniel Fitzpatrick.
  Reviewed by Donald E. Weatherbee

• Peacekeeping in East Timor: The Path to Independence. By Michael G. Smith with Moreen Dee.
  Reviewed by Donald E. Weatherbee

Australasia and the Pacific Region

• Conceiving Cultures: Reproducing People and Places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea. By Shelley Mallett.
  Reviewed by Lawrence Hammar

• Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World of Before and After. By Bruce M. Knauft.
  Reviewed by Terence E. Hays

• Tongans Overseas: Between Two Shores. By Helen Morton Lee.
  Reviewed by Susan J. Wurtzburg

• Money Makes You Crazy: Custom and Change in the Solomon Islands. By Ross McDonald.
  Reviewed by Eugene Ogan

• English-Tahitian, Tahitian-English Dictionary: Fa'atoro Parau, Marite/Peretane-Tahiti, Tahiti-Marite/Peretane. By Sven Wahlroos (Taote Tivini).
  Reviewed by Miriam Kahn